How to Achieve True Adventure in Your Life!

Are you craving change? Are you craving fun? 

When we get caught up in our day to day life it can seem so mundane. We may even blame this dullness on something outside ourselves. Perhaps you tell yourself life will be more exciting when I break up with my boyfriend. Maybe you tell yourself once I quit this job my life will feel on fire. You could be saying to yourself once I move to that big city I can live the life I want.

If you are currently not in these situations I congratulate you!!! You are living and not blaming other things for your unhappiness. But time to time we all get into this mindset.

I am suggesting to you ladies to start living now. Screw whatever life situation you are in, and make your life an adventure.

You can start creating adventures in your day to day life. This will rejuvenate your spirit and increase your joy.

Follow along I will give you some exciting ideas to make life that much better.

• On a warmer spring evening go for drive down a back road. Rolls your windows down so you can smell the earth's wonderfulness. Feel the breeze through the window. Smile at your freedom to go wherever the hell you wanted to.
• Drive to a distant city just to sit in their coffee shop. Observe the people. Are they different then the ones in your town?
• Do an act of kindness. Pay for the car behind you in the Starbucks line. Hold the door open for the group coming in behind you. Let the family go in front of you at the grocery store. This will get serotonin flowing in both the participating parties. Get ready to smile. 
• Wake up a little earlier to drink a cup of coffee and read a magazine on your front porch.
• Find and commit to an event on Meet Up!! 
• Laugh out loud. Laugh at yourself. Make yourself laugh. Fake laugh until you are truly laughing at yourself. Some reason this just feels so good. 
• Try a different cuisine type for a restaurant. It will be a brand new experience for you.
• Take a strip pole class or an aerial fitness class. You may feel a little out of your comfort zone; this is good. These classes make you feel more flexible and feminine. Who knows maybe it will lead to awesome friends or a passion for fitness.
• Take an art class at Jo Ann Fabrics or Michaels. Or follow along to a you tube video to make something amazing. Explore your creative side. 
• Decide last minute that you are going to take a trip to a different city for the weekend. Pack light and go by yourself. Check in to a hotel, then go out and explore. 
• Start up a conversation with somebody at the grocery store, coffee shop, or maybe in your neighborhood. You will feel even more connected.
• Check off an item on your bucket list! Go sky diving, climb a mountain, go scuba diving. Darling you can do this in between your day job, boyfriend, or family time. 
• Have a dance party with just yourself. Get your groove on. Isn't it crazy how you can have so much fun by yourself. 
• Pack up your lunch, a book, and a large blanket and hit a local park. Enjoy yourself and the laughter of children.
• Volunteer at your local library. Books are AWESOME.
• Offer to take your friends dog for a walk. If you have a dog offer to walk the dogs together. Won't that be an adventure?
• Decide to have a cheat day from trying to eat so damn healthy. Get that burger you have been craving!
• Watch something on the Travel Channel.
• If you received a free airline ticket and 1000 dollars where and what would you do? Plan it! Create a Pinterest board.
• Buy a mason jar, tape a piece of paper on it saying "My Grand Adventure" and put $5 - $20 dollars in it every week. Then in 1-4 years you will have that $1000, and all you have to do is buy the plane ticket. Just think if you saved $20 a week you could go a vacation every year! Oh the power of saving.
• Surprise your partner with hand made directions to a distant restaurant. Tell him to ask for Rose. Go to that restaurant and sign in as that name. It will be exciting for both of you. Maybe you can even dye your hair to really surprise him. Eek how exciting. 
• Make a goal to meet someone new every week. 
• Drive through your town and admire the buildings, really look at them. I bet you will see things you never truly saw before.
• Go to the nearest flea market. Some interesting things and people to find there.
• Lay under the stars. If you can see the open sky in your backyard grab a blanket and lay in the grass.  If it is too bright grab a blanket and take a drive. Lay on the hood of your car looking up at the stars. Do this on a weekday it will add more excitement. 
• Get really into a craft or a vision board! :) Stay up an extra hour or two than you usually do on the weekdays. Doesn't it feel good to do something different?

Adventure: an unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity

What if we changed our perception and thought everything was unusual and exciting? What if we looked at things differently? What if we chose to see the beauty in all things? What if we used our imagination to come with new ways of doing things? 

This would change our lives! 

I hope this inspires you to start looking at life as an adventure. Wake up in the morning and thank God/ the universe/ the all encompassing source that you are alive. Your outside world is a reflection of what is inside. Decide to make it a fun and enjoyable journey. 

With Love,

Kristina Ann

Keep On Keeping On Toward Persistent Growth

Keep busting through your ego. Keep working on yourself. Keep up on your goals.

"The key to get where you want to be is persistent growth."

Keep doing your meditations.
Keep reading self-help books.
Keep indulging on motivational, self-help guru's social feeds.
Keep doing your workout routine.
Keep making subtle shifts towards conscious living.
Keep creating habits to better your life.

If your dream is to be a great speaker, well-known author, or just a happily living yoga instructor just keep learning and growing; you will get there. If you judge someone, or get angry just keep recognizing it and let it go. If you slip and eat a whole pint of Ben & Jerry's forgive yourself and continue with your workout routine.

Don't be so hard on yourself. Make a choice to be persistent with your goals. Do not give up. You are so close.

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I look back at who I was 5 years ago and I am amazed at what I have overcome and how much I have changed. I believe the key to change is small subtle shifts over time.

I then look 5 years into the future and imagine who I want to be. What will I be doing? Who will be my close friends? Will be spiritual connection be so deep nobody can break it? How much will I love myself and appreciate my body?

I have high hopes and dreams for the future. They can sometimes seem unreachable and scary, but then I think all I have to do is make little changes, and create some concrete habits.


Now questions to getting you thinking,
What are some small habits you can start doing today that would help you get where you want to be in life?
Is there an area of your life where you have made subtle shifts to change or overcome something?

With Love,

Kristina Ann

Break Away From the Delusion of Time To Instantly Be Happier

"You are running out of time"

"Don't waste my time"

"I wish I had more time"

"Use your time wisely"

Time - we all want more of it. What is time though, that we want oh so badly?



Time: "The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole." -- Google's definition 

The continued progress of existence... hmmm  Existing, Living, Breathing, Being.

Don't those words seem to describe the current moment.

The only time that we have is right now. NOW is the only real thing.

Why waste your precious energy on the past. Become aware when your mind replays past events. Then come back to the Now. I have gotten over this. I rarely review the past. I have let go and forgave myself and others in my past.
My issue lately is becoming anxious about the future. I have been using up all of my energy planning and worrying about where I want my life to go.

The key is to surrender. Live right now in the moment and be open for any signs to guide you in the right direction. Stop obsessing. Stop worrying. Let go.

If you want your future to unfold how you want it to, you have to expand your presence in the now. 

Make it a practice to stay here, in the moment. It's all you really have.

With Love,

Kristina Ann

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Less is More

<< Too much of anything is unhealthy for us, both materialistic things and things we put into our body. >>

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Better the World

Have your every thought about what the world would be like if people stopped hoarding things? If people stopped trying to achieve so much of one thing?

It is like a disease. One of the biggest things in the world is the strive for money. Do not get me wrong wanting to have money and working towards a goal of having it is good. But when people get to a point where they have enough and are still striving for it. That is an illness. 

We are very inconsiderate about our resources. We leave our cars running, we leave lights on, we leave water running. How much we would be saving our planet if we just all tried to be more conscious of our actions, and tried to use less? 

Save Money

Being more considerate about our resources and the Earth helps you too! If you combine trips in town you save yourself money and help the planet! If you turn lights off when you leave a room you save money and help the planet! You could unplug appliances when you go on vacation (Not your fridge)! You could turn your hot water heater down, cut down on the days your sprinkler system is used, and turn the temperature set down on your thermostat in the winter (put another layer of clothing on).

Clear Your Mind

There is plenty of research that shows clutter can stress us out! GET RID OF IT!

When you have the mentality that less is more you get an overwhelming sense of relief. You do not have to strive to have so much. Happiness comes from within and not from outside things. So knowing that you do not need to have more to be happy can be welcoming.

I ask for you to look at your life and see what areas you could cut back on. Pay attention to areas where you feel having more is better, and shake those old believes out of your head.

Know that your life is amazing right now at your current state. Know that the best things in life are priceless. You do not need more to be complete.

Less is More, Baby.

With Love,

Kristina Ann

Steps to Build Up Areas of Your Life

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Do you read many blogs?
Do you watch TV shows?
Do you watch all the new movies?
Do you play video games?

You may be trying to live your life through other people or characters!
When our lives are not going as planned, and we get depressed about it, we tend to look for happiness in other's lives.
I have been there, done that.
I get home from a job I loathe and look forward to sitting in front of the TV watching a series I am excited about. I feel connected to the characters. I get excited when something good happens to them.

Has this been you?
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1. Start to look at how you are trying to live your life through others. Write these areas down.

For example:
Do you love a certain show because there is an awesome romance in it?
Do you love P.S. I Made This because you want to feel more crafty?
Do you love the Travel Channel because you wish you could travel the world?
Do you love Gabby because you wish you were more spiritual yourself?

2. Write down steps you could take to make those areas better in your life.

For example:
I want to have romance in my life. You could make an online profile on a dating website and start going on dates! You could spice up your own relationship by surprising them with little things that makes them smile. What you give out you receive back!
I want to be craftier. You could choice a project once a month or once a week, get a list of what you need for it, and save up to buy those items.
I want to be more spiritual. You could set aside some time, maybe 10 mins each night or 30 mins each Sunday, for yourself. Look up meditations to do, write those down. Find an awesome spa, go treat yourself.

3. Take action.

If you truly want to change something you have to take action.
If there is a will, there is a way.


Let me know which areas of your life you have been living through different people or characters. And what steps you could take to change your life!

With Love,

Kristina Ann

The Thankful Project - Day 4

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Hi everyone. Kenzie from Chasing Happy has started a project where she will give a subject and everyone says what they are grateful for pertaining to that subject. 

Today is day four to the 28 day series.

Today's subject is An Experience. 

I am extremely grateful for leaving my home town and joining the military. I would say the experience of getting out on my own, away from my family and friends has changed me for the better. 

It has widened my view on the world. There is so much to explore and see! I am grateful for this experience because it has gave me even more confidence to take risks when choosing larger decisions. I am not afraid to venture on my own!

Thank you Air Force for giving my that awesome experience! 

What experience are you grateful for? It could be a delightful one or a horrible one that taught you something. Let me know in the comments. 

With Love,

Kristina Ann